Monday, February 2, 2009

Do It: Watch Jason McElwin's Basketball Game

At Greece Athena High School in Rochester, NY, one day the profoundly autistic but highly-functioning team captain, Jason McElwain, was put in for the last several minutes of a Trojan's basket ball game. His coach thought he was just rewarding Jason for dedication to the team with a symbolic 2-point basket; what he got was a star performance. This joyful video has been making the rounds on Facebook, but you should take the time to see it on CBS News' own site

Watch the game. Do it!

PS - I have a friend with a kid who is, woefully, autistic and she lost it when she saw this video. It really is a pretty heart-warming, inspiring watch. Oh, and "Dare You to Move" by Switchfoot is inspiring, too; now playing on iTunes.

2 comments:

Lynn Eaton said...

thanks, chris

iClipse said...

No prob. Pretty cool stuff.